The Asahi Shimbun has an interesting translated story following up on the "controversial court ruling that equates a bar hostess having sex with a customer to prostitution".
We reported on this in May, when a judge said a hostess mama-san was simply doing makura eigyo ("pillow business") by sleeping with a client.
Lawyers specializing in divorce and adultery cases, private detectives who investigate cases of adultery and hostesses in the Ginza, where the defendant operates her establishment, all voiced concern. They said the ruling, by Judge Masamitsu Shiseki of the Tokyo District ...
A judge has made a ruling which should mean hostesses and hostess club mama-san's (the older ladies who own and/or manage the club) can rest easy.
The wife of a CEO who spent around seven years having an affair with the mama of a Ginza hostess club sued her husband's sexual partner for "mental suffering" she had caused. She wanted compensation of ¥4 million ($32,000).
The judge said that the Ginza mama-san was just doing makura eigyo ("pillow business"), the euphemism for when people have sex to further their career or do business. In other words, the Ginza hostess mama-san only ...
What happens after gravure idols hang up their bikinis and try to move on in their careers is a question that fascinates us.
Most crash and burn, but in the meantime manage to find a nice husband in the industry who will take care of them.
The tale of Aki Mizusawa is an interesting one.
Born in 1959, she was a gravure pin-up during the 1980s.
In between winning the hearts of men around the nation, she found time to have an affair with Jackie Chan, a well-known philanderer, in Spain in 1984.
She was also working as a singer during this time.
She sealed her sex siren reputation by ...
Yes, you did read that headline right.
Over 5,500 people have been formally charged with the "crime" of adultery over the past six years. Nearly 900 were charged in 2014 alone.
There is a 1953 constitutional statute banning adultery in South Korea.
But no more. Adultery will finally no longer be an illegal activity, thanks to a motion by the Constitutional Court.
It's the fifth time the court has mulled the change. This time it has been abolished at last.
“It has become difficult to say that there is a consensus on whether adultery should be punished as a criminal ...
It just goes to prove: being an middle-aged otaku does not mean you stop being attractive to the opposite sex.
Toshio Okada, the famous anime producer and writer, and co-founder of Gainax (Evangelion), has been exposed as a mass philander.
The 56-year-old chubby otaku had his cat let out of the bag when a picture of a smooch with a younger lady was leaked online.
The 21-year-old girl posted the purikura (photo booth) pic on Facebook on December 31st, along with screen captures of her exchanges with Okada on Line where he says he loves her.
The girl did it because she claimed ...
We love a scandal and we love a woman who knows what she wants.
Megumi Okina married the CEO of Cyber Agent in 2004 but divorced him the following year. She went through a dry period in her career and then got hitched again in 2009 to a businessman in a shotgun married. She had a second child in 2011.
A famous nikushoku-joshi (man-eater), in the past she has been linked to many famous men, including Takumi Saito and "bad boy" actor Manabu Oshio and nude pictures (called nyan-nyan photos) of their coupling were leaked. Oshio would later be sent to prison for his part in the death of a ...
... is the implication we can draw from data recently released by Hakuhodo as part of its Seikatsu Teiten project, an overview of survey data collected biennially on households on a range of questions.
The results show some trends and changes in the national psyche, though interestingly this one, responding to the statement "I don't mind having sex on the first date if our feelings match", has hardly changed.
It is now a solid 23.4%, up only 0.9% since the data started being collected in 1994. I guess attitudes towards sex on a first date are pretty established now.
The highest ...
The Japan Society of Sexual Science has completed a large survey of sexual habits among middle-aged and elderly couples, investigating Japan's chronic issue of "sexlessness".
Surveying sexual activity among 1,162 middle-aged and older men and women, the results show intriguing trends for the reality of Japanese relationships.
The survey was conducted between January 2011 and December 2012, with men and women living in the Kanto region (which includes Tokyo, Yokohama, Saitama, Chiba etc.) aged between 40 and 79. The average age of male respondents was 59.5 and for women it was ...
Japanese girls are clamoring to get advice from a sultry 22-year-old model called Ayame Tachibana.
Why? Because she is open about her very many encounters with men in Tokyo and claims to be an expert at hunting for guys.
Tachibana says she "has experience with over 100 men".
She recently told all about her romances in a book published earlier this year, collecting together the columns by her and other models from the fashion magazine Soul Sister, which is aimed at gyaru and "no-good girls".
She's been hunting guys since she was 17 and started going to clubs.
"At that ...
A new survey by Ashley Madison, the infidelity social networking site, suggests that Japan isn't just the world's best exporter of electronics and automobiles... it leads the world in making selfie porn too.
While Japanese girls are often known for being shyer and more demure, don't let that fool you. According to Ashley Madison users, 84% of women and 89% of men in Japan love to film or photograph themselves having sex.
That’s much higher than elsewhere. The average in the Ashley Madison survey found that a mere 52% of women and 60% of men photograph themselves in the act.
The survey ...
